Hey, Pokémon Conquest And Lollipop Chainsaw Did Okay In The U.S.

Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes was the best-selling videogame in the U.S. last month, according to a report by the NPD Group, who reveal that the title sold 450,000 copies across all platforms in June.

In fact, Lego Batman 2 was one of two Batman games that were present in the NPD’s top-ten for May—Batman: Arkham City made a return to the list as well. With The Dark Knight Rises movie scheduled for release next week, Batman is possibly on consumers’ minds, NPD theorize.

June was a rather interesting month for sales in general. Batman aside, Game Informer report that Grasshopper Manufacture’s Lollipop Chainsaw, also published by Warner Bros. outside Japan, sold 107,200 copies during the month.

Despite relatively respectable sales, however, Lollipop Chainsaw didn’t chart in the top-ten; but Pokémon Conquest, the quirky cross-up of Pokémon and Nobunaga’s Ambition, charted on the #7 spot.

Finally, also joining the superhero party alongside the Batman games in June was The Amazing Spider-Man, which—despite being on nearly every platform imaginable—only charted at the #10 spot.

Lollipop Chainsaw has done surprisingly well all-round; it managed to stick in the UK top ten for at least two weeks straight, which was fairly impressive for a Grasshopper Manufacture title. Its starting price being £30 instead of the usual £40-£45 helped it along too, I imagine.

I wonder what WB think of Lollipop Chainsaw. The game has done well for what it is, but WB have had to go from publishing million-sellers (Batman and Mortal Kombat) to a game that “only” sold 100k. I do wonder how they feel about that.

FitzpatrickPhillips

Soo glad Lollipop Chainsaw did well. I was afraid it would be another NMH 1 incident but it seems Sudo is happy.

Birth by Sleep charted when it was released, so Dream Drop Distance has a chance, too, provided that franchise fatigue hasn’t set in overseas as well.

The thing with BbS, though, is that it was more welcoming to newcomers, since it had an entirely new cast of playable characters. This one requires knowledge of all the previous games, so that will probably make it off-putting to more than a few people.

At the same time, it is bound to drive some people in mostly because it features Sora and Riku, returning to the fray. I’d say it’s definitely a wild card, I wasn’t expecting the japanese audiences to pass up on this game like they did, and I certainly can’t predict the way the US fans will react too.

KH has always been somewhat more sucessful in the west…even if not by a large margin. Let’s see.

EDIT:I know for sure that sales for the game will take a beating in Europe, since rumour has it SE Europe fired their spanish and italian translators, and won’t be translating KH and Theathrythm (already released, no spanish nor italian translation available so far), and Nintendo Iberia already said they won’t be publishing the game in Spain, so only a few, selected retailers will be getting the game in that region.

Solomon_Kano

I doubt its sales will be top 10 worthy, but it should do nicely. At least, I hope it does.

Its nice to see an original title sell decently for once, though there’s still a bunch of garbage on that top 10 list as always.

Solomon_Kano

Lollipop did 100k? Sweet.

It’s also interesting to see Pokemon there. One should never doubt the power of Pokemon, I suppose.

Göran Isacson

Good on Suda for getting a game that sold at least decently well- now I just hope Killer is Dead can bring in the bucks for their creator as well.

z_merquise

Nice to see Lollipop Chainsaw selling well. Both Kadokawa and Warner Bros. did a good effort in promoting the game so I think that really helped the sales.

wahyudil

lego batman 2 is epic

Mrgrgr and Unacceptable World

Good news for Pokemon Conquest there.^^ Considering it is a very great and fun game there.^^ And also, Lollipop chain saw to sells above 100k (even though it is only a bit there) in the mids of critics and low score from game reviewers.^^

Overall, great news this time.^^

Neophoton

I wasn’t impressed when I played Pokemon+Nobunaga back in March, but it’s nice to see that the shift to SRPG didn’t have people shy away from it in North America. Hopefully that allows them to give more SRPGs a chance. (…Unlikely to happen, right?)

Or maybe all it takes to sell a game is to make it high quality. Silly NPD.

Kefkiroth

Interesting to see that the DS audience is still alive and that Conquest even outsold MW3, though I guess that’s not saying much since MW3 is verrry old now.

Skyrius

I’m looking at the top ten list and as an RPG gamer, I’m kind of sad. As a gamer in general, I’m STILL kind of sad.

Yaminess

Pokemon Ambition (I mean, Conquest) was a lot more fun than expected.
The gameplay reminded me almost of a watered down version of Disgaea. The story definitely could have been better, though and lacked depth…even for a kids game.